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In distributed machine learning (DML), the training data is distributed across multiple worker nodes to perform the underlying training in parallel. One major problem affecting the performance of DML algorithms is presence of stragglers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Amogh Johri , Arti Yardi , Tejas Bodas

To reduce the long training time of large deep neural network (DNN) models, distributed synchronous stochastic gradient descent (S-SGD) is commonly used on a cluster of workers. However, the speedup brought by multiple workers is limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Shaohuai Shi , Zhenheng Tang , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

A framework is introduced for solving a sequence of slowly changing optimization problems, including those arising in regression and classification applications, using optimization algorithms such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Craig Wilson , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Graph neural networks (GNNs) face significant challenges with class imbalance, leading to biased inference results. To address this issue in heterogeneous graphs, we propose a novel framework that combines Graph Neural Network (GNN) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Hung-Chun Hsu , Bo-Jun Wu , Ming-Yi Hong , Che Lin , Chih-Yu Wang

Recently, local SGD has got much attention and been extensively studied in the distributed learning community to overcome the communication bottleneck problem. However, the superiority of local SGD to minibatch SGD only holds in quite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Tomoya Murata , Taiji Suzuki

It is hard to directly implement Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on large scaled graphs. Besides of existed neighbor sampling techniques, scalable methods decoupling graph convolutions and other learnable transformations into preprocessing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Chuxiong Sun , Hongming Gu , Jie Hu

This article describes a novel optimization solution framework, called alternating gradient descent (GD) and minimization (AltGDmin), that is useful for many problems for which alternating minimization (AltMin) is a popular solution. AltMin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Namrata Vaswani

We study distributed reinforcement learning (RL) with policy gradient methods under asynchronous and parallel computations and communications. While non-distributed methods are well understood theoretically and have achieved remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Alexander Tyurin , Andrei Spiridonov , Varvara Rudenko

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving paradigm for collaboratively training a global model from decentralized clients. However, the performance of FL is hindered by non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xinyu Zhang , Weiyu Sun , Ying Chen

Since the label collecting is prohibitive and time-consuming, unsupervised methods are preferred in applications such as fraud detection. Meanwhile, such applications usually require modeling the intrinsic clusters in high-dimensional data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Han Zhang , Wenhao Zheng , Charley Chen , Kevin Gao , Yao Hu , Ling Huang , Wei Xu

One of the most common methods to train machine learning algorithms today is the stochastic gradient descent (SGD). In a distributed setting, SGD-based algorithms have been shown to converge theoretically under specific circumstances. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Soumya Sarkar , Shweta Jain

The optimal operation of transportation systems is often susceptible to unexpected disruptions. Many established control strategies reliant on mathematical models can struggle with real-world disruptions, leading to significant divergence…

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Continual model merging integrates independently fine-tuned models sequentially without access to the original training data, offering a scalable and efficient solution for continual learning. However, existing methods face two critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zihuan Qiu , Yi Xu , Chiyuan He , Fanman Meng , Linfeng Xu , Qingbo Wu , Hongliang Li

Asynchronous stochastic gradient descent (ASGD) is a standard way to exploit heterogeneous compute resources in distributed learning: instead of forcing fast workers to wait for slow ones, the server updates the model whenever a gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ammar Mahran , Artavazd Maranjyan , Peter Richtárik

Node classification is an essential problem in graph learning. However, many models typically obtain unsatisfactory performance when applied to few-shot scenarios. Some studies have attempted to combine meta-learning with graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yonghao Liu , Mengyu Li , Ximing Li , Lan Huang , Fausto Giunchiglia , Yanchun Liang , Xiaoyue Feng , Renchu Guan

This paper addresses the challenge of out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization in graph machine learning, a field rapidly advancing yet grappling with the discrepancy between source and target data distributions. Traditional graph learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xin Sun , Liang Wang , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Zilei Wang , Liang Wang

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) has garnered widespread attention by enabling collaborative training on multiple clients for semi-supervised classification tasks. However, most existing FGL studies do not well consider the missing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Luying Zhong , Yueyang Pi , Zheyi Chen , Zhengxin Yu , Wang Miao , Xing Chen , Geyong Min

We propose Lite-STGNN, a lightweight spatial-temporal graph neural network for long-term multivariate forecasting that integrates decomposition-based temporal modeling with learnable sparse graph structure. The temporal module applies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Henok Tenaw Moges , Deshendran Moodley

This work focuses on the decentralized deep learning optimization framework. We propose Adjacent Leader Decentralized Gradient Descent (AL-DSGD), for improving final model performance, accelerating convergence, and reducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Haoze He , Jing Wang , Anna Choromanska

Reducing communication in training large-scale machine learning applications on distributed platform is still a big challenge. To address this issue, we propose a distributed hierarchical averaging stochastic gradient descent (Hier-AVG)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Fan Zhou , Guojing Cong